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...very swank, even by Kennedy standards, but Signora Agnelli might well have been unawed. Back home in Italy, the Agnelli country house in the Piedmont was built for a king (Sardinia's Victor Amadeus II), and kings still architecturally outdo presidents. Even the summer house on the Cote d'Azur was once the plaisance of Belgium's Leopold II. the last of his country's kings who could afford to act like one. The Agnellis, though new to the Kennedy circle, seem dear friends already; it was on their yacht (82 ft.) that Jackie spent many...
...school is Portsmouth Priory (220 boys), which aims not at Holy Cross or Notre Dame, but at Harvard, Yale, Princeton. New England-style prep schools are rare outside the East, but the best include Ohio's Western Reserve (235 boys), Colorado's Fountain Valley, California's Cote, which puts on classical drama in the original languages. California's Thacher shuns football but requires every boy to own and operate his own horse for two years. Top event there is a gymkhana featuring orange-spearing at full gallop. Equally important now: a summer program in math...
...York I don't go in much for these little female lunches at the Colony and the Cote Basque," says Ceezee. "And I hate cocktail parties. We usually have people in or go out in the evening-to a dinner or a benefit or a ball. I'm not a great nightclubber, but of course I turn up at El Morocco from time to time. Last winter it was Le Club, I thought it was loads...
...outfit and a red Catalan cap, began splashing brown and gold paint on a canvas with such vehemence that he spattered the astonished audience below. With a flourish, he ripped the canvas open-and out flew a dozen frightened homing pigeons, to flap about looking wildly for their cote...
Accessory. In Putnam, Conn., when Mechanic Hector Cote explained to a woman motorist that she had been having trouble with her car because she had been driving with the choke pulled out, the lady said: "Oh, I thought that was to hang my pocketbook...